The Railways have decided to divert some trains passing through Chennai Central via Perambur to take up major track and signalling work between Basin Bridge and Chennai Central.The passengers who have booked ticket in these trains will have to entrain or detrain at Perambur till October 6 with immediate effect, according to the railways.The trains to skip Chennai Central are 13352/13351 Alappuzha-Dhanbad Express, 12512/12511 Thiruvananthapuram Central-Gorakhpur Expresses, 22648/22647, Thiruvananthapuram-Korba Express, 12522/12521 Ernakulam-Barauni Express and 22646/22645 Thiruvananthapuram central- Indore Junction Express in both direction.22644...more...

CHENNAI: Passenger trains from and to Chennai Central will be rerouted through Perambur or Chennai Beach from September 6 to October 7.Train No.13352 Alappuzha-Dhanbad express, scheduled to leave Central at 11pm will not touch the station from September 6 to October 6. It will reach Perambur at 10:15pm for a 20-minute stoppage. Train 12512 Thiruvananthapuram-Gorakhpur Raptisagar express, scheduled to leave from Central at 11:25pm on 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27 & 28 September and 2, 4 and 5 October will not touch Central. It will reach Perambur at 10:50pm for a 20-minute stop. Train 22648 Thiruvananthapuram-Korba express, scheduled to leave Central at 11:25pm from September 8-October 6 will not touch Central. It will reach Perambur at...more...

10:50pm for a 20-minute stop. Train 12522 Ernakulam-Barauni express will not touch Central between September 9 and 30. Train 22646 Thiruvananthapuram-Indore express, will not touch Central from September 10 to October 1. It will reach Perambur at 10:50pm for a 20-minute stop.Train 12840 Chennai Central-Howrah mail, scheduled to leave Central at 11:45pm will leave from Chennai Beach railway station at the same time from September 6 to October 6. Train 12839 Howrah-Chennai Central mail, will arrive at Central 90 minutes behind schedule from September 7-October 7.For connecting passengers arriving by train 13351 Dhanbad-Alappuzha express at Perambur, an EMU train will be kept ready at Perambur to go to Chennai Beach railway station. This train will leave as a passenger special EMU from Avadi at 1:15am and reach Perambur at 1:35am. It will proceed to Chennai Beach after connecting the passengers arriving at Perambur by Dhanbad - Alappuzha express.For connecting passengers arriving by Train No.13351 Dhanbad - Alappuzha express at Perambur, Train No.43801 Chennai Beach - Arakkonam EMU local, leaving Chennai Beach at 1.20am. will be available at Perambur. This will be a connecting train for passengers proceeding towards Avadi, Thiruvallur and Arakkonam.12 other trains, Dhanbad - Alappuzha express, Chandigarh / Dehradun - Madurai express, Gorakhpur - Thiruvananthapuram express, Korba - Thiruvananthapuram express, Indore - Thiruvananthapuram express, Barauni Jn. - Ernakulam Jn. Express, Patna Jn. - Ernakulam Jn, Shalimar - Thiruvananthapuram express, Muzaffarpur Jn. - Yesvantpur express, Guwahati - Thiruvananthapuram express, Guwahati - Bengaluru Cantonment express and Guwahati - Thiruvananthapuram express will not touch Central. They will stop at Perambur for 25 minutes from September 7-October 7.

The SR in its twitter page has given a good explanation & background for the same.The fifth and sixth lines are needed as movement of trains in the Moore Market Complex-Basin Bridge corridor is already constrained as both EMU trains as well as long distance express trains have to share the existing track.The fifth and sixth lines will provide a separate corridor for EMU trains towards Arakkonam to ensure uninterrupted movement of suburban trains thereby reducing commuting time for passengers besides enhancing the sectional capacity.

CR has been continuously rejecting proposals for 24 coach rake for all trains bound to South from CSTM. PF and pit maintenance issues cited as concerns. this is happening only for South bound trains. If there are concerns, they can move all the trains to LTT and make them 24 coach rakes. Same reason cannot be given for years and years...

The 22641/ 22642 Thiruvananthapuram Central- Shalimar- Thiruvananthapuram Central bi-weekly expresses have been temporarily augmented with one air-conditioned three-tier coach.The additional coach will be added to the services departing from here on September 17 and 19 and from September 20 and 22 to the services departing from Shalimar.